Saturday, January 16, 2010

"Snowmageddon"



Oh, how it snowed. It snowed like a bitch. It snowed so hard you could be forgiven for thinking God had decided planet Earth was naught but an embarrassing celestial typo and was desperately trying to Tipp-Ex it out of existence.
You may think I'm exaggerating. So do I. But I've been watching the saturation news coverage of Britain's cold snap and consequently it's hard not to view the snowfall through apocalyptic eyes. The thick layer of snow received, quite literally, blanket coverage. As far as the 24-hour rolling networks were concerned, this wasn't a freak weather condition. This was war. Death from the skies. Earth versus the Ice Warriors. Snowmageddon.
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1 comment:

parlance said...

Slavanka, did you know our baby elephant was born yesterday here at the zoo in Melbourne, happy and well and starting to play around as soon as it was born?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/7003393/First-baby-elephant-born-at-Melbourne-Zoo.html